Jezabat's Tumblr Corner

You are not going to pass a skillcheck against a rip current once it has you.

Waves will not bow to your physical prowess no matter how impressive.

Shock does not care that you used to be on your school swim team.

If you hit your head, being good at swimming isn't going to turn you face-up while you're unconscious.

it's just a security blanket a lot of white women use to make themselves feel like they're a better person than they actually are without having to put in any of the work to do so.

but taylor swift has used it as a marketing tactic so much that there are thousands of women who believe the only work they have to put in to be feminist is supporting her career...which is. insane.

there's many many reasons to not like her as a brand and as a person.

at the end of the day, she grew up very wealthy with parents who had the right connections, and were determined to make her succeed no matter who they hurt in the process.

no such thing as an ethical billionaire. swifties get SUPER defensive when you point that out. they deflect, say there's people far worse. which is true. but that doesn't mean she's not bad.

the swifties themselves function like a cult at its core. if you don't give total praise, they attack. i think taylor swift-whether she intended to create an almost cult like following or not-has created a very unhealthy relationship with her fans. she marketed from a young age that she was one of them, just this girl next door and they think she's their friend.

she's not. there's an incredible power imbalance. her team knows she has fans who will defend her no matter what. the problem is there's millions of them. which means there's thousands of bad apples with no boundaries who are willing to do some pretty inhumane stuff to people just because they're not a fan. (ex: doxxing and murder threats)

it's honestly kind of sad because most people get stuck at the age they got famous. and it shows with her.

taylor swift simply would not be allowed to get away with half the things she's done if she was a black woman.

not to mention the racist dog whistles in her last album, which when black women point it out, they get called overly sensitive or reaching or sexist.

and to be really really honest...she uses the exact same marketing techniques as trump. once someone pointed that out, i cant unsee it, that says everything. even down to starting a conspiracy that anyone who criticizes her must be a bot account and should have their account suspended or whatever. she's completely out of touch. always has been. she just hid it well.

anyways. as a black woman (who is SO VERY TIRED of the swifties being allowed to be racist and misogynistic) and former swiftie who was in her fanbase at a very lonely time in my life where i had found genuine community when i desperately needed it, taylor swift the corporation isnt to be trusted.

there's just no more space between the corp and the person anymore.

As the world’s foremost football star, Lionel Messi is understandably protective of his image. The Argentinian forward carefully picks and chooses whom he is associated with, and has signed lucrative long-term deals with enormous global brands, such as Adidas, Pepsi, and Mastercard. That is why many were surprised when, in 2020, he announced a partnership with OrCam, a relatively small Israeli A.I. firm that makes wearable artificial vision devices (similar to Google Glass). OrCam markets itself as helping visually impaired people live more fulfilling lives. Messi became its global brand ambassador and the face of the company.

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There are SIX questions total in reblogs, the end will be marked by large green text. If you don’t see all six, check reblogs and grab the version with the ending note.

Answers amended from the 2025 census based on feedback. If you’re mixed, choose what feels right to you I’m not here to do phrenology or paper bag test you but don’t make it my problem either. When in doubt, ask yourself: would the whites kill you too in the race war?

This census is US-centric because so is tumblr, unfortunately. This poll is also starting with a heavy Black/racialized bias due to my personal followers. The main point of this census is to see how white-dominant the site is currently compared to prior years, as well

For the purpose of this census, Imperial Core will be defined as the following: United States, Canada, Australia, Aotearoa, basically all of Western Europe, Japan, and Israel. If you want to argue about any of these designations, too bad maybe they should stop colonizing.

Note for clarification:

*For those who don’t know, TMA means transmisogyny affected (such as trans women, some non-binary people, etc.) whereas TME means transmisogyny exempt (Cis men, cis women, transmasculine individuals, etc). If you want to ask for clarification for which applies to you for the purposes of this poll, feel free to ask and I’ll try to reply, but if you try to argue or quibble about the terms themselves, I’ll block you.

1/6 - Nonwhite (brown Arab)

2/6 - Nah

3/6 - Nonbinary but TME. For this, I wanted to specify I’m TME given the nature of this survey. I’m nonbinary in a way inextricable from my culture, and have those specifically cultural/linguistic/religious terms listed in my bio in Arabic (that being said, enjoy this article about three of those terms, https://shc.stanford.edu/arcade/interventions/identities-single-root-triad-khuntha-mukhannath-and-khanith-0. Also, there’s mutarajillah, literally “emasculated/masculine woman,” but there are no good sources on that as an identity despite proof indicating the existence of mutarajillat in Arab and Islamic history. I assume the mukhannath, literally “effeminate/feminine man” is heavily focused on due to a transmisogyny bias, while the mutarajillah falls to the wayside in terms of Arab-Islamic gender studies as a ‘nonidentity,’ like the difference between drag queens and drag kings, the latter a co-opt of the former, resulting from being born out of two different social experiences that have shaped different queer subcultures and variably informed the public reaction to said culture——i.e. violence and pedojacketing). At the end of the day, I do not exclude myself from the nonbinary identity, and, most importantly, I am not transmisogyny affected.

4/6 - Periphery (here is the Wikipedia page I used to check my answer against: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_countries). I’m Palestinian-Jordanian, outside of Palestine (diaspora of ‘48, born in Jordan, holding a citizenship), in a safe upper-middle class area in an upper-middle class Muslim family. For the Arabs that care, I’m half-madani, half-fallahi, but fully madanized. Here’s another paper about the terms for those not in the know, and the interesting case of the forced subsumption of the fellah, the Palestinian peasant, and their culture into the symbology of the Palestinian resistance by the Arab gentry: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3317957 (The paper is written by a nonPalestinian from Yale. It is well-written and very informative in my opinion. Highly recommend, but don’t let it be your sole source. These aren’t just Palestinian terms, and the meanings change when viewing from outside the lens of the discourse and symbology of Palestinian resistance, even within Palestine and for the average Palestinian day-to-day.)

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3317957

5/6 - I’m non-Black, 1-2. An old friend I’m not counting because I’ve been negligent in responding to cloud, but cloud is still my friend. For posterity’s sake I won’t count cloud due to a long gap without communication entirely on my end (this is a trend I need to stop, I’m aware). For those I am counting: one of my online mutuals who I hold watch parties with, I’d hope we’re friends (hi Nerves), and a friend from back in highschool. That being said, I’m glad this reminded me to check in on my latter friend too. Last we talked was a few months ago.

To others filling out this survey, please check in on the friends you consider for these answers, more than ever if you haven’t heard or sent word in a while.

6/6 - I’m TME, 1-2. I would say 3, but one online friend I haven’t spoken to in so long, maybe a year or two (due to my own negligence, my personal excuses unnecessary and unhelpful here. This is a poor habit actively contributing to the isolation my friends likely already experience, and there is no excuse for the harm I’ve knowingly caused like this). That being said, I thought it would be more honest to say 1-2 even though I consider her my friend and I know she considers me hers. I should text her, too.

One of my friends (online) is a self-identified crossdresser but also transfemme but also nonbinary in a he/him lesbian way (she uses any though. I use she/her, she doesn’t mind. Cold fucking case, huh?). My other friend (IRL) is a trans woman and a year into HRT :). Proud of her. All are white :(. Would love more Black TMA friends, especially to play DnD with.

Final Thoughts / Reflection:

I have to try harder to reach out and help foster a safer environment for Black dolls around me. I have to especially work with my own limitations to assure my friends, comfort them, and be present in their lives in a meaningful way. Transfeminism and antiBlackness start with the active decisions you make with the individuals in your life, after all. If anyone nonBlack and or TME is filling out this survey, though this is informational for Anonsee’s research purposes, forgive me for suggesting a practical takeaway for those who find themselves in a position like mine: listen to the TMA and Black people in your community intently, and be more active in your unsolicited support of them and in fighting antiblackness and transmisogyny even when not asked (because so many people cannot ask and suffer silently, so make it a point to show up without having to be told). Reach out to especially Black transfemmes around you IRL and online with love and tenderness, consistently, or as much as you can (just assure them they are seen and cared for and act to prove it). Support them financially, as mutual aid is one of the biggest generators, if not the only generator, of income for a lot of transmisogynized people, Black people, and Black transmisogynized people, and that goes double for anyone outside of the imperial core.

hi everyone, its puppet! you may know it from getting terminated constantly and having to remake its dono posts a lot. sadly it has to aaagain.

so, puppets a homeless and disabled trans woman, and it cant work, has been couch crashing, and has been living purely off donations from tumblr as they keep terminating it. and now on top of that, it is living with its girlfriend, @phantomqueen10001001! while this has been great for both of us,, puppet already only has enough money for food for the next 1-2 weeks, and we both really need to eat. and so we would really appreciate if anyone could help!

puppet has a paypal here, and cassie has one here.

also, in august we are going to lose our current crash spot, and we need to look for another, but we're very disconnected in the city.. if anyone here knows anyone in seattle who needs a roommate or who could give us a place to stay for a while,,

we'd really really appreciate any help.

If it helps inventivise girls who can to help provide housing, I can even provide some money as rent if needed

sharing from an instagram comment, these are some of the indigenous communities being affected by the fires and their donation information

Whitesand First Nation and Collins First Nation have direct deposits for e-transfers set up.

WSFN = [email protected]

Collins / Namaygoosisagagun = [email protected] (it is being run through Anishinabek Nation)

Thunder Bay has taken in evacuees and are accepting clothing, food, diapers, etc. through the local Superior Inn on 555 Arthur Street West

Please support some of the following (and please feel free to tag more)

Thunder Bay Community Pasture

Northern Reach Network

the patriarchal system of ownership of women and children that the family consists of exists all over the world and is just as present in extended family structures, which offer their own means of control and ownership